London Hop on Hop off Bus Tour - 24/48 Hour Ticket

Explore London as you hop on and off at more than 44 stops

Enjoy a free walking tour (a GBP 10 value)

Take a free boat ride on the Thames River (a GBP 5.5 value)

See landmarks such as Buckingham Palace, the Tower of London, the Tower Bridge, and more

Visit celebrated areas of London including Trafalgar Square and Piccadilly

Learn about the sights with audio guides that are available in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, and Japanese

This remarkable bus tour of London provides you the opportunity to explore this fascinating city in all its grandeur. Your 24- or 48-hour ticket allows you to hop on and off the bus at any of its many stops. You’ll have the freedom to comfortably explore the city in depth.

On the tour route you’ll find world-renowned attractions and landmarks such as the Tower of London, Shakespeare’s Globe, spectacular Westminster Abbey, and of course, the inimitable Buckingham Palace. You’ll also see the most eminent precincts of the city, such as distinguished Regent Street, world-celebrated Oxford Street, and vibrant Piccadilly.

Stops on the tour include the following:

• Buckingham Palace Road - Colonnades Coach Station Stop Buckingham Gate -Tourist Bus Stop
• Parliament Street - Outside HM Treasury
• Whitehall - Tourist Bus Stop
• Lower Regent Street - Tourist Bus Stop Outside No.1109
• Piccadilly - Tourist Bus Stop Green Park Station
• Piccadilly - Tourist Bus Stop Hyde Park Corner
• Knightsbridge - Outside Lanesborough Hotel
• Knightsbridge - At Scotch House
• Kensington Gore - Royal Albert Hall
• Kensington Road - Palace Gate
• Gloucester Road - Kensington Plaza Hotel
• Gloucester Road Station - Stop G
• South Kensington Station - Stop D
• Cromwell Gardens - V & A Tourist Bus Stop
• Brompton Road - Harrods Bus Stop
• Knightsbridge - Hyde Park Corner Coach Stop
• Park Lane (Northbound) - Tourist Stop
• Park Lane (Northbound) - Marble Arch
• Baker Street - South of Porter Street
• Orchard Street - Outside Selfridges
• Haymarket - South of Orange Street
• Pall Mall East - West of Trafalgar Square
• Duncannon Street - Outside St. Martin-in-the-Fields
• Aldwych - Tourist Bus Stop
• Ludgate Hill - St. Paul’s Cathedral (Museum Of London)
• Queen Victoria Street - Cannon Street
• King William Street - London Bridge
• Tooley Street - London Dungeon
• Tooley Street - Tourist Stop Vine Lane
• Tower Hill - Opposite Tower Hill Station
• Southwark Bridge Road - By Steps to Thames Path
• York Road - North of Chicheley Street
• Westminster Bridge Road - Tourist Bus Stop
• Tothill Street - Tourist Bus Stop
• Buckingham Gate - Opposite Queens Gallery
• Buckingham Palace Road - Thistle Victoria Hotel
• Buckingham Palace Road - Colonnades Coach Station Stop

Please note that during the course of the year numerous events and marches take place in Central London, which require the routes to be diverted, and some of the stops may not be able to be served. The tour staff will be pleased to give you the information you require to ensure you can use the services with confidence.

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• Rating: 3 “So-so due to poor information”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Chicago, United States on May 2nd, 2013 Its difficult to find the bus stops if you don't get on where you got off. I wanted to walk around a bit so I tried to get to the next stop and it took me a really long time to find the stop, the map they gave me was very little help. The audio is pre-recorded and very minimal, also when we got stuck in traffic, it got out of sync to the sights.

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• Rating: 3 “wouldn’t book it again...”

  Reviewed by Caroline from Herzogenaurach, Germany on September 29th, 2012 The Golden Tour has a lot of stops, but not much info. You get headphones and you can select from many languages. But sadly you don't get much from it, most of the time there's just music playing. I recognised the Tower Bridge by myself on the right hand side, but the info on the bridge e.g. height, age etc. aren't added.
  
  The guides were nice but couldn't really help any further.
  
  The boat tour is trash, you only get to ride on a liner up the Themes, but you don't get any info and there's no real chance to sit outside.
  
  Price top, info a flop.

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• Rating: 5 “Good info, easy to use, all went without a hitch, recommended...”

  Reviewed by Belinda from Balbriggan, Ireland on August 4th, 2012 Would definitely use Getyourguide again, great selection of tours, so easy to book, pay, print and off you go.

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• Rating: 5 “Great value, great experience and great tour guide”

  Reviewed by Lucija from Bristol, United Kingdom on July 23rd, 2012 The ease of booking the tickets online was the first great thing about using Golden Tours tourist bus tour of London. We were also blessed with very nice weather and completely mesmerised by our tour guide. I'm very sorry that I didn't catch his name but he proved to be a never-ending well of local knowledge, spanning from history, literature and popular culture. We had a an amazing time and enojoyed every minute of the bus tour, followed by the included free Thames Clipper boat ride. The only catch is not to leave too little time towards the end of the day (rush hour in particular) if you are trying to catch a connection out of London, because the frequency of tour buses is not great after 5pm.

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• Rating: 3 “Not enough buses available :(”

  Reviewed by Cornelia from Boswil, Switzerland on July 15th, 2012 On the first day we put in a lot of effort trying to find a bus and eventually just gave up. We tried again on the second day. After walking around for a long time we finally found one of the blue buses. It departed soon after we found it. We also had to ask twice to get our tickets exchanged- we needed them to get onto our boat ride. We also had to wait a long time to get on to the boat, but the ride on it was comfortable.

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• Rating: 3 “It was ok”

  Reviewed by Martin from Reinach BL, Switzerland on July 13th, 2012 The advertised description '24 hours' is misleading,,,

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• Rating: 5 “A1 experience”

  Reviewed by Agnes from Carnoustie, United Kingdom on April 16th, 2012 Had a wonderfull experience driver and guides were very helpfull and knoledgeable. Thanks

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• Rating: 4 “For 2 days, the price is really good.”

  Reviewed by Steven from Magdeburg, Germany on April 12th, 2012 All ran well whilst there, but you need a ticket for the boat tour from the bus company. Ours then fell into the water.

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• Rating: 4 “2 days for the price”

  Reviewed by Dennis from Dresden, Germany on April 12th, 2012 All ran well whilst there, but you need a ticket for the boat tour from the bus company. Ours then fell into the water.

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• Rating: 4 “Really good tour of London and knowlegable tour guide”

  Reviewed by Deborah from Macclesfield, United Kingdom on April 9th, 2012 We did the 3 hour bus tour and took advantage of the River Thames trip too which was all included and it was an excellent trip enjyed by the family/

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• Rating: 4 “Entertaining trip with an amusing atmosphere.”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Berlin, Germany on March 25th, 2012 It was really fun, but the loudspeakers were often too loud for me. Nice, pleasant staff even before we got on the buses.

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• Rating: 4 “Was good, pleasant, funny staff in the bus.”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Berlin, Germany on March 25th, 2012 You have to be on the lookout on the street for a person dressed in blue, then you'll find the bus station easily. We were spoken to directly and were shown the way to the station. The staff were always in a good mood. Even when it rained, there were plastic rain jackets ready in the bus for us. So it wasn't too bad if you had no umbrella with you. It was fun.

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• Rating: 4 “great value but although less buses than others would use again”

  Reviewed by John from Glasgow, United Kingdom on March 12th, 2012 Apart from the free museums, this was the best value we had in London. I expected the inclusive boat trip to be in an inferior vessel but it was top notch. We did not have time to try an inclusive walking tour but will make time we book with this company. Some of the other companies appear to have a more frequent service but the most we waited was 10 minutes.

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• Rating: 3 “Friendly drivers but .............”

  Reviewed by M from East Sussex, United Kingdom on December 30th, 2011 Drivers were very friendly, the announcer on one bus concentrated on the people upstairs only, never even said hello to the people downstairs. The buses could have done with being more frequent, to the point that next time we come, we will probably use another service as there was more of these available.

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• Rating: 3 “Die Tour ist ok wenn man nicht zu of aussteigen möchte.”

  Reviewed by Rainer from Düren, Germany on May 22nd, 2013 Leider fährt diese Linie nicht so oft wie die Rote Linie, Vorteil, man hat viel Platz :-)

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• Rating: 5 “Wir waren von der Organisation hellauf begeistert.”

  Reviewed by Richard from Grafing, Germany on May 15th, 2013 Wir waren drei Tage in London. Alle in Anspruch genommenen Leistungen wurden hundertprozentig erfüllt. Den Anbieter kann man nur weiter empfehlen. Die Unterlagen zur Reise kamen zwei Tage nach der Bestellung. London Reisende sollten unbedingt vor der Reise vom Angebot Tickets für die Sehenswürdigkeiten sowie Bahnverbindung und U-Bahnticket im voraus zu bestellen, da man den Aufenthalt ein Wesentliches erleichtert.
  Vielen Dank für ihre tolles Angebot und Organisation

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• Rating: 4 “Eine ideale Art, eine Stadt für einen ersten Eindruck kennenzulernen!”

  Reviewed by Roland from Urdorf, Switzerland on May 4th, 2013 Die Agenten an den Stationen waren sehr zuvorkommend und hilfsbereit! Leider mussten wir um die Mittagszeit herum an einer Stationen fast 45 Minuten auf den nächsten Bus warten.

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• Rating: 3 “Freundlich, hilfsbereit aber Busstationen teils schwer zu finden.”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Männedorf, Switzerland on April 23rd, 2013 Freundlicher und hilfsbereiter Service, weniger Busse und andere Haltestellen, daher teils umständlicher.

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• Rating: 2 “nur wenige blaue Busse unterwegs! Voucher einlösen schwierig!”

  Reviewed by PATRICIA from EUPEN, Belgium on April 15th, 2013 es kommen nur alle 15-30 Minuten Busse dieser Gesellschaft vorbei, die angegebenen Zeiten stimmen auch nur selten und die auf dem Voucher angegebenen Anlaufstellen zum Einlösen des Vouchers stimmen nicht; gibt kein Büro am Piccadily, steht aber auf Voucher.
  ROTE Busse kommen ständig vorbei!
  Freitag war nirgends ein Verkäufer zu sehen, Samstag traf man öfter mal 1 an einer Haltestelle. Bevor man den Voucher aber nicht eingelöst hat, hat man auch keinen Busplan mit den Anlaufstellen und Haltestellen. Das über Internet gebuchte Familienticket bestehet entgegengesetzt der Info am Telefon aus nur einer Fahrkarte, haben extra 4 Karten drucken lassen müssen, damit jeder seine Karte hat und wir uns trennen konnten. Die Bootsfahrt findet in geschlossenen Booten statt, nur eine Strecke ist inbegriffen, vom Tower zum London Eye oder umgekehrt. Auch hier muss man das Ticket erst umtauschen, alle anderen Gesellschaften nehmen das Ticket als Fahrkarte.
  Aber NUR hier 48 Stunden Tickets buchbar!!

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• Rating: 2 “unpünktliche und dazu noch zu wenige Busse & on Top technische Problem”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Wolfsburg, Germany on April 15th, 2013 Die Busse waren meist unpünktlich 8 was bei diesem Verkehr in London noch zu verzeihen ist) und es gab einfach zu wenig Busse die unterwegs waren. An einer Haltestelle angekommen warteten wir auf den Bus - leider immer recht lange - mittlerweile kamen durchschnittlich 3 - 4 Busse einer anderen Busgesellschaft, die auch diese Tour anbietet, mit dieser wären wir wesentlich schneller von A nach B gekommen. Zusätzlich gab es in den Bussen teilweise technische Probleme (die Ansage funktionierte nicht) und die Ansagen waren sehr oft unpassend zur aktuellen Position des Busses (das habe ich in anderen Städtenbereits viel viel besser erlebt).

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• Rating: 4 “Sehr guter Service mit einer Ausnahme.”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Ditzingen, Germany on April 11th, 2013 Der Mitarbeiter der Firma hat am ersten Tag unserer Busrundfahrt unsere Bestätigung nicht in ein Ticket umgewandelt (aus Zeitnot? ). Dies führte dazu, das wir im Hafen keine Tickets zur Bootsfahrt bekamen, wir mussten zur Zentrale. Dort bekamen wir die Tickets und man entschuldigte sich bei uns.
  Die Fahrer waren äußerst freundlich und hilfsbereit.

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• Rating: 4 “in Ordnung”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Borken, Germany on April 8th, 2013 Es hat keine Schwierigkeiten gegeben

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• Rating: 4 “hat gut geklappt”

  Reviewed by viktoria from wien, Austria on April 4th, 2013 Wenn man die richtige Einstiegstelle gefunden hat wird man von einem Mitarbeiter gleich sehr nett begrüßt und informiert. Der Busfahrerer selbst ist auch sehr bemüht und weiß gut Bescheid.
  Erschwerend ist im Bus die doppelte Ansage bei touristischen Höhepunkten: der Busfahrer spricht gleichzeitig mit dem Tonband, dadurch hört man Beides nicht wirklich.
  Bei Schlechtwetter ist die Fahrt im oberen Bereich sehr kalt und zugig.
  Die Highlights von London sieht man gut und schön im Überblick.

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• Rating: 3 “Nette Idee-Ablauf jedoch manchmal kompliziert.”

  Reviewed by Frauke from Dettingen, Germany on April 4th, 2013 Am besten einsteigen und sitzen bleiben! Dabei sieht man viele Sehenswürdigkeiten und garantiert sich seinen Sitzplatz ( oben eher selten!) Aussteigen ist zwar möglich, aber wieder einsteigen kann lange Wartezeiten mit sich bringen. Manchmal kommt ewig kein Bus. Die Themsefahrt ist wirklich zu empfehlen und klappt prima. Vielleicht sollte man seine Bestätigung kopieren, da keine Tickets vor Ort ausgedruckt werden! Somit ist keine Uhrzeit registriert und für die Themsefahrt wird die Kopie benötigt. Eher am Wochenende buchen, unter der Woche ist öfters Stau.

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• Rating: 4 “Gut”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Mainz-Kostheim, Germany on April 2nd, 2013 Alles hat gut geklappt, Personal war immer freundlich

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• Rating: 5 “tolle Gelegenheit London kennenzulernen”

  Reviewed by Ulrike from Berlin, Germany on March 27th, 2013 Am besten gefallen haben mir die netten Busfahrer und Helfer an den Stationen. Auf manchen Touren gibt es leider weniger und ich hatte das Gefühl, dass die Busse sehr viel weniger oft gefahren sind aber das kann natürlich auch am Verkehr liegen.
  Am Tower kannte die Ticketverkäuferin für das Boot die Company nicht, hat uns aber trotzdem ein Ticket gegeben (und diese Bootstour war mit Fish´n Chips in den Händen mein schönstes Erlebnis).
  Man kann bei einem 48h-Ticket anscheinend auch 3 Tage fahren, weswegen ich dieses empfehlen möchte.

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• Rating: 4 “Tolle Möglichkeit. sich schnell in London zurecht zu finden.”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Gretzenbach, Switzerland on March 12th, 2013 Tolle Möglichkeit sich schnell in London zurecht zu finden.

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• Rating: 5 “Ihr seid Spitze, gerne wieder, toller Service”

  Reviewed by Marlene on March 3rd, 2013 Einfach toll.

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• Rating: 4 “Gute Information über jeweilige Stadtlage”

  Reviewed by a GetYourGuide Customer from Wadern, Germany on February 19th, 2013 Die Information über die jeweilige Stadtlage war übersichtlich und gut.
  Die nähere Beschreibung der Objekte, auch ihre Historie, könnte etwas
  intensiver sein. Dies war in Berlin besser.

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